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Re:Not everyone should meditate by mbg721 on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @10:27PM (#30536786)
Imo, recognizing that there are some uncontrollable thoughts is part of the general trend of acknowledging the close connection of mental health to physical health. The existence of "lizard" characteristics to the brain doesn't invalidate free will, but they're so rarely pointed out that it's useful to notice them.
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Re:Not everyone should meditate by sooheon on Thursday March 03, 2022 @05:50AM (#30539437)
There is no distinction between "lizard" and non-lizard thoughts. Every that that arises in your brain originates with processes far below the level of consciousness, you don't have control over the upstream causes that are in motion long before you are aware of any conscious thought.
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Re:Not everyone should meditate by mbg721 on Thursday March 03, 2022 @09:05AM (#30541145)
Even accepting that deterministic framework, I think there's still a distinction in that the lizard-thoughts are missing some metadata that comes with the thoughts we recognize as conscious.
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